At last, she had it all — a maid to clean And cook, a nanny who could watch the kids, And cash enough for her to at last ween Herself from any kind of work. Her bids To empty herself of the misery Of doing anything at all soon…

The Trivium is part of a Medieval educational system that was designed to provide the student with a complete education. The Trivium is made up of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The other part of that educational system was called the Quadrivium — arithmetic (number), geometry, astronomy, and music. You may…

Verse is metered language. What, though, is meter? “Meter” comes from the Ancient Greek “metron,” meaning “measure.” When we measure, or count, our lines, we are writing in meter. The simplest way to write meter is to simply count syllables. When we are writing poems with lines containing the same…

“All art [is] cognitive play with pattern” — Brian Boyd, Why Lyrics Last, pg. 5 Rhythm and pattern are fundamental to understanding and finding meaning in the world. Rhythms and patterns are examples of a particular rule found at every scale of nature. Both involve repetitions of either objects (which…

Abduction, by Jesse Mockrin Here, at last, is the promised post on metamodern poetry — or, at least, what I think metamodern poetry is and ought to be, or at least, how I practice metamodern poetry. In other words, I’m going to present you with my theory of poetry writing…

The Greeks believed that the Muses were the offspring of Zeus (God) and Memneke (Memory). One way of understanding this insight is that poets produce their art due to a combination of inspiration and memory. In other words, we have to have some kind of knowledge in order to create…